Brittany Martin
Brittany Martin is an Engineering Manager at Shogun, co-host of The Ruby on Rails Podcast, and she plays roller derby for Steel City Roller Derby under the pseudonym “Merge Conflict”.
She lives in Pittsburgh, PA and she tweets at @brittjmartin
Brittany Martin has hosted 399 Episodes.
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Episode 327: 327: JetBrains & RubyMine with Natalie Kudanova
July 22nd, 2020 | 16 mins 44 secs
Natalie Kudanova is a product marketing manager for JetBrains RubyMine, an IDE for Ruby and Rails developers. She and Brittany discuss the best way to reach Ruby developers and IDE innovations.
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Episode 326: 326: Job Searching and Hiring Advice During the Pandemic with Brian Mariani
July 15th, 2020 | 27 mins 7 secs
A timely episode for the employers hiring and the Ruby developers looking for work during the pandemic. After a heartfelt story, Brian Mariani, founder of Mirror Placement, revealed hiring patterns and honest advice for these unprecedented times.
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Episode 325: 325: [REPOST] Ruby Blend: Open Sourcing a Ruby Gem with Brittany Martin
July 8th, 2020 | 56 mins 48 secs
Brittany guested on the Ruby Blend! The hosts counsel her on opensourcing her googlepay gem. They then dive into how important README's are, useful tools for documentation and RSpec API documentation.
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Episode 324: 324: Rails::Engine with Vladimir Dementyev
July 1st, 2020 | 23 mins 29 secs
Vladimir Dementyev is a mathematician who found his happiness in programming Ruby and Erlang, contributing to open source and being an Evil Martian. He is the author of AnyCable, TestProf and an advocate for building monoliths with Rails Engines.
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Episode 323: 323: Keen to Keeping Using Ruby with Nick Schwaderer
June 24th, 2020 | 28 mins 56 secs
The cat is out of the bag! Nick Schwaderer is back to answer all of Brittany's questions about his new role at Chef. They also dive into graphic design/typography, Ruby's popularity and the new minimal Rails app skeleton generator.
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Episode 322: 322: Rails CI Pipeline Performance with Kelly Sutton
June 17th, 2020 | 25 mins 59 secs
Kelly Sutton is a software engineer at Gusto on their application infrastructure team. He and Brittany discuss his project, TestDesiderata, and his latest blog post, "From 25 Minutes to 7 Minutes: Improving the Performance of a Rails CI Pipeline".
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Episode 321: 321: Ruby API and Bundler with Colby Swandale
June 10th, 2020 | 30 mins 4 secs
Colby Swandale is a Ruby Engineer at Envato in Melbourne. He is also a core contributor to the Bundler, RubyGems & RubyGems.org projects. He guested on the show to introduce his latest project, Ruby API.
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Episode 320: 320: ViewComponents in Action with Andrew Mason
May 27th, 2020 | 27 mins 22 secs
Andrew Mason is the lead developer for CodeFund. He podcasts on The Ruby Blend or Remote Ruby, writes blog posts, and works on open source projects. He and Brittany discuss his implementation of ViewComponent at CodeFund.
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Episode 319: 319: Gap Here and 10x Customers with Sean Devine
May 20th, 2020 | 36 mins 16 secs
Sean Devine, CEO of XBE, is welcomed back to the show to discuss hiring Rails developers in this climate, introduce XBE's innovative new program for graduating high school seniors ("Gap Here") and reveal the value of a 10x customer.
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Episode 318: 318: Error Messages Are Your Friends with Gina Verrastro
May 13th, 2020 | 21 mins 21 secs
Gina Verrastro is a Rubyist, writer, and proud graduate of LEARN Academy. She is a Tech Support Engineer at SOCi who specializes in taking the most optimistic view of every bug-hunting situation.
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Episode 317: 317: Coming Home to Rails with Vince Eberle
May 6th, 2020 | 34 mins 48 secs
Vince Eberle is a Full Stack Developer at 412 Food Rescue. He has worked on app development on-and-off using Ruby on Rails and EmberJS. He and Brittany discuss coming back to Rails and how powerful Rails can make a developer in a non-profit.
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Episode 316: 316: MongoDB and Onboarding Junior Developers with Emily Giurleo
April 29th, 2020 | 28 mins 56 secs
Emily Giurleo works as a Software Engineer at MongoDB, where she helps maintain the MongoDB Ruby Driver and Mongoid Object-Document Mapper for RoR. She brought insightful advice on how to successfully onboard a junior engineer in three steps.
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Episode 315: 315: Worrying About the Wrong Things with Hilary Stohs-Krause
April 22nd, 2020 | 31 mins 46 secs
Hilary Stohs-Krause is a co-owner and full-stack software developer at Ten Forward Consulting. Together, they explored the root causes of fear and anxiety and how we can start to deliberately rewrite our instincts.
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Episode 314: 314: Active Storage & Modern Images with Mark Hutter
April 16th, 2020 | 29 mins 25 secs
Mark is a lead engineer at Landing and the co-organizer of the Birmingham on Rails conference. He guested on the podcast to propose the simple question: can ActiveStorage be used for image serving in your modern web apps?
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Episode 313: 313: Strangler Fig Pattern & God Objects with Adrianna Chang
April 9th, 2020 | 30 mins 17 secs
Adrianna Chang is a developer intern at Shopify and a member of the inaugural cohort for Shopify’s Dev Degree program. She joined Brittany to discuss her latest blog post, "Refactoring Legacy Code with the Strangler Fig Pattern”.
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Episode 312: 312: (PFN) Podcasting From Home with Brittany & Nick
April 2nd, 2020 | 30 mins 29 secs
Nick Schwaderer popped on to the show to talk about his recent job search and his recent commit to Rails core. Brittany discussed how she is taking the opportunity to work on her Googlepay gem and the recent conference cancellations.